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maskormenacelogs2020-02-01 01:24 pm
perfectlyhuman) wrote in maskormenacelogs2020-02-01 01:24 pm
[OPEN] Something about the world today
WHO: Adam Young and YOU
WHERE: All over
WHEN: First half of February
WHAT: The whole CnC thing was a mess, and Adam has found himself back not only dealing with years of memories from an alternate life, but also several friends of his are gone. Lots of changes happening.
WARNINGS: Sad child, big thoughts
1. [OUTSIDE NONAH, HOUSE] Packing up
He's still in there a lot, for the first week.
There's no reason to pack up things by hand. He could easily make it all go away, will it all into boxes, cut himself the slack. But he doesn't want to.
There's a lot of books. Stories, comics, the occasional mysterious tome that may not be entirely age or theme appropriate, but that his former guardians didn't seem to have an issue in him keeping. There's toys, of course, some of them partially chewed on by either of his pets. There's souvenirs, including a small, very accurate guilhotine they'd given him after they came back from Paris.
There's other stuff around the house. The plants, the other books. He doesn't know what to do with them, but he's not going to give them away. As far as he's concerned, the house is staying where it is, how it is, mysteriously locked and unbreakable.
He could use some help with packing, though.
2. [NONAH, STRIKE A PAWS PET STORE] Something to do
Nobody really knows how the boy stays employed, but it doesn't look like the shop owners mind or care. There's justifiable absences, every once in a while, but they do an eleven year old, so there's a lot more questions than anyone cares to ask.
It doesn't seem like a lot of people are really into bringing their pets in here lately. Makes sense, really, probably after everything that's happened in the last couple of months, and with rumors of strange creatures roaming about again. Not that Adam really gets why people are into bringing their pets over so often, anyway, but he's always happy to play with the little pups that come in.
Today, though, he's diligently going down the aisles and picking up assorted items. Pet beds, toys, cans and bags of food, the latter of which don't seem to keep only to dog and rabbit food, strangely enough.
He's got a good sizable pile of things in his arms as he's reaching for another small plastic dish, and ends up dropping half of them in mess of clatters and thuds.
3. [DE CHIMA, STREETS AND FOREST] Hideout
Many times, more often now than before, Adam can be spotted around De Chima. Often times, past school hours, he'll be walking down to the residential area and well past the houses, into the forest that surrounds the city.
A good couple of times, he seems to be carrying a rather full backpack and a couple of heavy looking bags, with assorted items. He's also always accompanied by his canine friend, and often carrying Bubsy the Jackalope in his arms.
A couple of people may know where he's going, all those times. Those that don't are welcomed to ask. A secret that isn't really a secret, but younger imPorts will have a better chance of being invited along.
4. [JEOPARDY] Curiosities
He hasn't been here in a good while. At a point, he pops in to see how far along the city's doing ever since what happened a couple of months, curiously watching the rebuilding efforts.
He likes Jeopardy a lot. It's spooky and weird, he's pretty sure half the people he sees around aren't really alive. There's just this odd feeling about it, not new to anyone, but that he finds...fun? Welcoming? Just weird? He doesn't know. But he likes it here.
He's decided to go to all manners of shops, though he's more often found in bookshops. Crystals and cards? He doesn't really understand those, but the crystals are neat.
Might as well build up his collection.
5. [ANYWHERE] (Make up your own prompt)
During these weeks, Adam can be found wandering around, as usual for the boy. Usually with a backpack on and accompanied by Dog, sometimes Bubsy the Jackalope, he can be almost always found anywhere between Nonah and De Chima, though that doesn't mean he won't go to other import cities.
All week days, he can be found at school, usually with his face buried in a book or notebook, specially nowadays. He seems to be keeping a lot to himself.
A few times a week, during the late afternoon, he can be found doing his shift at Strike A Paws Pet Store.
He can be spotted in several parks with his pets. Many times in book shops and the library, often coming in and out of sweets shops and cafés. May even find him heading deeper into the forest around De Chima.
Come and say hi.
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WHERE: All over
WHEN: First half of February
WHAT: The whole CnC thing was a mess, and Adam has found himself back not only dealing with years of memories from an alternate life, but also several friends of his are gone. Lots of changes happening.
WARNINGS: Sad child, big thoughts
He's still in there a lot, for the first week.
There's no reason to pack up things by hand. He could easily make it all go away, will it all into boxes, cut himself the slack. But he doesn't want to.
There's a lot of books. Stories, comics, the occasional mysterious tome that may not be entirely age or theme appropriate, but that his former guardians didn't seem to have an issue in him keeping. There's toys, of course, some of them partially chewed on by either of his pets. There's souvenirs, including a small, very accurate guilhotine they'd given him after they came back from Paris.
There's other stuff around the house. The plants, the other books. He doesn't know what to do with them, but he's not going to give them away. As far as he's concerned, the house is staying where it is, how it is, mysteriously locked and unbreakable.
He could use some help with packing, though.
Nobody really knows how the boy stays employed, but it doesn't look like the shop owners mind or care. There's justifiable absences, every once in a while, but they do an eleven year old, so there's a lot more questions than anyone cares to ask.
It doesn't seem like a lot of people are really into bringing their pets in here lately. Makes sense, really, probably after everything that's happened in the last couple of months, and with rumors of strange creatures roaming about again. Not that Adam really gets why people are into bringing their pets over so often, anyway, but he's always happy to play with the little pups that come in.
Today, though, he's diligently going down the aisles and picking up assorted items. Pet beds, toys, cans and bags of food, the latter of which don't seem to keep only to dog and rabbit food, strangely enough.
He's got a good sizable pile of things in his arms as he's reaching for another small plastic dish, and ends up dropping half of them in mess of clatters and thuds.
Many times, more often now than before, Adam can be spotted around De Chima. Often times, past school hours, he'll be walking down to the residential area and well past the houses, into the forest that surrounds the city.
A good couple of times, he seems to be carrying a rather full backpack and a couple of heavy looking bags, with assorted items. He's also always accompanied by his canine friend, and often carrying Bubsy the Jackalope in his arms.
A couple of people may know where he's going, all those times. Those that don't are welcomed to ask. A secret that isn't really a secret, but younger imPorts will have a better chance of being invited along.
He hasn't been here in a good while. At a point, he pops in to see how far along the city's doing ever since what happened a couple of months, curiously watching the rebuilding efforts.
He likes Jeopardy a lot. It's spooky and weird, he's pretty sure half the people he sees around aren't really alive. There's just this odd feeling about it, not new to anyone, but that he finds...fun? Welcoming? Just weird? He doesn't know. But he likes it here.
He's decided to go to all manners of shops, though he's more often found in bookshops. Crystals and cards? He doesn't really understand those, but the crystals are neat.
Might as well build up his collection.
During these weeks, Adam can be found wandering around, as usual for the boy. Usually with a backpack on and accompanied by Dog, sometimes Bubsy the Jackalope, he can be almost always found anywhere between Nonah and De Chima, though that doesn't mean he won't go to other import cities.
All week days, he can be found at school, usually with his face buried in a book or notebook, specially nowadays. He seems to be keeping a lot to himself.
A few times a week, during the late afternoon, he can be found doing his shift at Strike A Paws Pet Store.
He can be spotted in several parks with his pets. Many times in book shops and the library, often coming in and out of sweets shops and cafés. May even find him heading deeper into the forest around De Chima.
Come and say hi.
--
[OOC: For plotting, feel free to privately message this account, or contact me at
De Chima | Mid Month
Crowley and Aziraphale left.
It is suspiciously like what happened with his other self in that other place. That he was alone there. And Lilith-
Lightning curls out of his fist in crackling bursts but he chooses to bury his head in his hands, heedless of anyone approaching until he spots -
The boy.
There is a wave of absolute rage that fills him and it's hard to tell if that's him or stuck him. More lightning crackles out of his hands. Outwardly however, only Adam may be able to tell it's the archangel since Gabriel is dressed in a gray and blue flannel shirt and an undershirt and jeans and he looks like he's walked through hell.
Seeing him his chest burns.]
...Do I apologize to you? Or do you apologize to me.
Re: De Chima | Mid Month
Adam doesn't even recognize him from behind, dressed like that. Doesn't register at all that it's the archangel, not until Gabriel turns, and that's when Adam stops. Dog stops by the boy, staring at the angel uneasily with his beady black eyes, making an uneasy sound as he does. Bubsy remains clueless, in Adam's arms.
The boy doesn't know what he expected to hear, the first words from Gabriel's mouth as they found themselves here. But, that...well, in a way, it's expected, isn't it? But Adam furrows his brow, more in confusion than outright offense. ]
What?
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[He stares at him, hands in his pockets. He has 6 years work of knowledge and memories and skills and tastes and it all mills in his mind and he can't decide if it's for the best or the worst but...
It's the angelic thing to do. Settling what happened with him. Ending it? Trying to fix it? He's not sure and to be honest...
He doesn't care.]
We spent 6 years as actual antagonists. Moreso then we were. I don't know - what I owe you. And what you owe me. Or what-
[He glares.]
What we do.
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[ The answer is quick, and short.
This isn’t one of those times where the boy looks simply confused, or neutral. One of those times where he’s fine letting the archangel talk and answering whatever question he’s asked, and asking some of his own. No some conversation about important subjects, but not a casual one, either.
This time, Adam looks wary. He looks...kind of miffed, really.]
And I don’t want anything from you.
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No. No she did that. The boy may have technically done nothing but he can't shake the anger and annoyance and genuine rage because the boy has always been there.]
We've been neutral towards each other.
[He bares his teeth]
No matter how...obnoxious you've been
We need to keep being this way. How do we make this right between us.
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They were neutral because Adam gave him a chance. Despite the warnings, despite how they've met. Despite how Gabriel was that day, Adam didn't avoid him when the archangel showed up here. Even with all of his talks about the end of the world, about how Adam and his friends ruined everything. Despite all of that, Adam had treated him like everyone else here - because Gabriel is like everyone else here.
He understands that that other place - that other time - was not the same as here. But it wasn't that different either. And the archangel had shown his true colors there. ]
No. [ He finally replies. Dog looks up at the boy and makes another uneasy sound. His master is clearly upset. ]
We don't have to do anything. Not now, not ever.
[ This isn't just about Gabriel, of course. A lot has happened. This is all just one piece in a big puzzle of complicated feelings. ]
I don't want to talk to you.
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And even if it weren't his fault he acted like Lucifer. Like the morningstar and that thought, that very thought that Angels could be capable of that was enough to repulse him to-
He stops, unconsciously blocking the boy's path.]
You have to let me apologize.
I - I didn't understand what I was doing. I thought I was helping people and I'm sorry -
But you have to let me say it. That's how this works. Because I can explain. And then you can explain your point of view.
See, kid. I understand now.
[no. He doesn't]
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You're not sorry. [ Adam doesn't believe he thought he was helping people. He can understand Gabriel might not see things in a human manner, but some things are really not that hard to parse. ]
You don't understand. You don't understand any of it, you never did.
Get out of the way. [ And he tries to go around him. ]
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His eyes narrow.]
I understand and I understand more then you.
[He doesn't]
And even if I didn't, I'm learning.
[At the expense of others.]
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I said-
[ And his voice adopts a subtle distortion behind it, wind seeming to pick up a little around them. ]
Get out of the way!
[ That's quite clearly a warning. ]
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Half angry at himself and half fighting the other half of himself he steps halfway out of the way. The wind picks up and he looks skyward before looking down at the boy like a child himself.]
Stop getting angry with me! I did wrong things but I'm learning!
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Seems like Gabriel is always present in the rare occasions Adam is legitimately upset.]
You don’t listen to anyone, all you want to do is tell people how you think things are and how things should be. That’s all you ever did.
[ Dog, still at Adam’s feet, is getting quite agitated, both over Gabriel’s presence, and his master’s growing anger.]
You haven’t changed. At all.
[ And the lashing out is pointed by Adam simply storming past the archangel, followed by Dog.]
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[Anybody, even a child, can probably tell he's genuinely confused by it, turning back to yell it at the boy. Did I change? And howso? Like this? Was it good? Or bad?
For the first time he wished Aziraphale were here.
Somehow...who would understand. And explain.]
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But the boy is too angry, too upset to deal with him just now. Not when he remembers what Gabriel did, from the more personal attacks, to all the atrocities comited in the name of--
The Greater Good, wasn't it? ]
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There is a moment when he thinks - this is why people talk to others. What had the human called it? Therapy.
HE could talk to someone and that person could tell him what to do about the boy and others. If he had others who knew more things.
Nodding to himself, decided on his course, he watched the boy go before vanishing in a burst of speed.]